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October will be a good month for motorcycle riders in the region with Bike Track Days at Dubai Autodrome set to resume on Saturday, 13 October 2018. Following a break from the summer holiday season, the popular track days and evenings for motorcycles are once again open for bookings. Dates have been announced for October, November and December. Bike Track ...

Lorenzo snatches sensational last-gasp pole in Aragon. Spaniard beats Dovi and Marquez as the trio are split by 0.079, with the latter two playing cat and mouse in Q2. Jorge Lorenzo (Ducati Team) will start Sunday’s Gran Premio Movistar de Aragon from P1 after sealing his third consecutive pole position of the season in style, snatching Saturday’s honours from teammate Andrea ...

Marquez, Lorenzo and Viñales race at home as Dovizioso arrives on a roll. From a Misano painted red by Jorge Lorenzo’s (Ducati Team) pole and teammate Andrea Dovizioso’s victory, it’s time to pack up and head for MotorLand Aragon – where the red may well remain. The track is a venue much loved by Championship leader Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda ...

The Italian makes it three in a row for Ducati and three Italian winners on race day with his first Misano win. Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team) took an expertly-crafted victory in the Gran Premio Octo di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini, picking his way into the lead and unleashing incredible pace to secure only the second ever win ...

Five-time World Champion sets a new record to make it four Misano poles in five years – as Marquez amps up the drama with a crash. Jorge Lorenzo (Ducati Team) broke his own 2016 pole lap record at Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli in an adrenaline-fuelled qualifying on the Adriatic, searing around the venue in a 1:31.629 to lower his ...

Win on Sunday, sell on Monday. Or so the saying goes… It’s a cliché that emerged from the smokey boardrooms of automotive executives in the 1960’s. A sort of advertising shtick used to justify spanking through obscene piles of cash in order to go racing. The theory was, that if the green [race] car finished ahead of the red [race] ...

Splashed with colour, Misano is ready to host a carnival of home heroes. It’s a good few weeks since MotoGP™ raced on Italian soil but the fans have surely kept the home fires burning since Mugello. As we head for Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli for the Gran Premio Octo di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini there is ...

For the many thousands of fans that braved the changeable climate at Silverstone – oh, if only British politics were as reliable as the weather – there was only one star who carried their hope of home-grown glory. The florescent ‘35’ stood out in the morning gloom of race day for the twelfth round of nineteen in 2018 MotoGP but ...

What does passion mean to Valentino Rossi? And how has this made him a 9x world champion and one of the biggest legends in Motorsport. The road has not always been smooth, but Valentino is not one to give up. For the first time, follow his steps as a young racer becoming one of the world’s greatest athletes and how ...

After lengthy delays, the decision was finally made to cancel the 2018 GoPro British Grand Prix at Silverstone with the heavy rain failing to drain from the track surface, with the premier class riders and Race Direction deeming it unsafe for any races to take place on Sunday. “It was obvious the track conditions weren’t safe. After a consultation with ...

They say you should never wait too long for your next appointment…so we grabbed some valuable time with the always-elusive-always-in-demand Valentino Rossi. In a MotoGP career touching two decades the 39 year old Italian must have given thousands of interviews but there are always one or two pieces of information or nuggets of curiosity from #46 himself that pop-up. So ...

18 corners, one winner: Lorenzo vs Marquez? Rossi? Viñales? Dovizioso? Or a homecoming in style for Crutchlow? As the dust settles after the incredible duel in Austria, the stage is most definitely set for Silverstone. The venue that first hosted a showdown between then-reigning Champion Jorge Lorenzo (Ducati Team) and then-rookie challenger Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) in 2013, it could ...

The world’s top drift racers descended upon the city of Liverpool to witness one of the biggest and loudest motorsport events to ever hit the UK. Here is all you need to know: – Red Bull Drift Shifters was originally dreamt up by New Zealand professional drifter ‘Mad’ Mike Whiddett, debuting in his home town of Auckland back in 2012. – ...

Spaniard reflects on brilliant career ahead of emotional MotoGP retirement. Dani Pedrosa has been riding competitively on the professional circuit since 2001 and has finally decided to bring the curtain down on a glittering career that saw him win three world titles. The Spaniard won the 125cc championship in 2003, then claimed back-to-back 250cc titles in 2004 and 2005 before ...

Lorenzo vs Marquez: A classic rivalry and another classic race, this round goes to the number 99…just Jorge Lorenzo (Ducati Team) and Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) put on a show to remember at the Red Bull Ring in the eyetime Motorrad Grand Prix von Österreich, with the two dueling down to the wire in an instant classic and Lorenzo coming ...

The fight for victory at Brno was a classic. Can Spielberg serve up a repeat? Only a few days after the Czech GP it’s already action stations for Austria as MotoGP™ returns to the Styrian Alps and the stunning Red Bull Ring – Spielberg. Altitude and acceleration are the buzzwords and Ducati are the reigning kings of the mountain. Winners ...

The MotoGP grid is a cauldron of ambition, ego, professionalism, desire and – perhaps – a degree of questionable sanity. The 24 riders coming from 10 different nations and with a mix of stories, backgrounds and reasons why these athletes (and their families) have compromised to reach the pinnacle of motorcycle racing. Pitched squarely into the middle of the pack ...

Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team) has taken his second win of the season in incredible style in the Monster Energy Grand Prix České republiky as a three-way fight for the win raged between the 04, his Ducati teammate Jorge Lorenzo and reigning Champion Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team). By the flag it was a Lorenzo vs Marquez classic on the final ...